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Just picked up one of these after my Tascam MP-GT1 developed issues:
It doesn't do everything the Tascam did, but I've just been using the Tascam as a metronome lately and for that I'm really liking the Korg so far. My use case has been keeping a metronome running during the day through some over-ears slung around my neck so that I can get as much rhythm practice in without my guitar (via tapping, snapping, tongue clicks, etc.) as possible. With the Tascam I was getting around 6hr of use before it needed recharging. Makes sense, it has a lot of fancy stuff built in to it. This Korg though can go around 400hr per the manual on a single pair of AAA batteries. Now I can keep the metronome running 24/7 for up to two weeks if I want! Already been able to make good use of this by having it running all day, so 12hrs more than I could before (not counting sleeping hours). It has a headphone jack, so I can do the same thing I did with the Tascam, piping the click into my headphones.
The Korg, however, also has a speaker. I didn't realize this was going to be a positive until after I bought it. I had previously tried to fall asleep wearing my headphones with the Tascam clicking away in them, and that proved fairly uncomfortable and cumbersome. Plus it was dead by the time I woke up so I couldn't use it during the day (6hr charge time). But since the Korg has a speaker, I've been able to set it to a low volume next to my bed at night and fall asleep practicing rhythms. When I wake up, it's still going and I'm immediately reminded to start practicing again. Then once I'm dressed I can switch over the headphones, drop the Korg in my pocket, and go about my day.
My two gripes so far with the Korg are 1) since the buttons are on the face of it I have to be more careful with it in my pocket to avoid pushing any of them accidentally, while the Tascam was pretty much immune to this. The volume scroll wheel on the side also sometimes gets moved when pocketing the Korg, and it seems like "0 volume" isn't at the bottom of the pot range either. Maybe I'm just deaf. 2) I prefer the click of the Tascam to the beep of the Korg. Through the speaker it's more of a metallic "ping" like a tiny hammer hitting an anvil, through the headphones a beep. It gets the job done, but the Tascam's click is closer to the noise I can make by clicking my tongue, so it's easier to tell if they're exactly aligned or not. Also I find the click more pleasant than the ping.
That said, the Korg has a nice quality-of-life feature built into it with the swinging metronome arm on the front. Most of the time I don't find these very useful, even the real arms on mechanical metronomes, because there is often not a well-defined point in the swing where the click occurs. It occurs in the same spot, that spot just isn't very well marked if at all so it's harder to use as a reference. With the Korg though, the beep appears to occur right when the arm hits the side of the screen. The arm also seems to freeze ever so slightly when it hits too, which makes the event visually stand out more.
I also appreciate that the Korg can be set to 0 beats per bar, which means that it's just a continuous stream of unaccented beeps, whereas 1 beat per bar is a continuous stream of accented beats. I prefer the unaccented beep, it's not as shrill and is closer to the click of a tongue.
Hopefully this thing lasts a good long while, it's making a big difference in how much practice I can get in during the day. If I forget at some point, I eventually hear the beeping and get back at it. On the flip side strangers probably think I'm a bomb threat, what with the constant quiet beeping.
I suppose metronomes aren't the usual things people show off here, but it's the little things in life. Plus I wanted to share that this is the first metronome I've found where the swing arm serves as a good visual reference for the click, in case that matters to anyone.
It doesn't do everything the Tascam did, but I've just been using the Tascam as a metronome lately and for that I'm really liking the Korg so far. My use case has been keeping a metronome running during the day through some over-ears slung around my neck so that I can get as much rhythm practice in without my guitar (via tapping, snapping, tongue clicks, etc.) as possible. With the Tascam I was getting around 6hr of use before it needed recharging. Makes sense, it has a lot of fancy stuff built in to it. This Korg though can go around 400hr per the manual on a single pair of AAA batteries. Now I can keep the metronome running 24/7 for up to two weeks if I want! Already been able to make good use of this by having it running all day, so 12hrs more than I could before (not counting sleeping hours). It has a headphone jack, so I can do the same thing I did with the Tascam, piping the click into my headphones.
The Korg, however, also has a speaker. I didn't realize this was going to be a positive until after I bought it. I had previously tried to fall asleep wearing my headphones with the Tascam clicking away in them, and that proved fairly uncomfortable and cumbersome. Plus it was dead by the time I woke up so I couldn't use it during the day (6hr charge time). But since the Korg has a speaker, I've been able to set it to a low volume next to my bed at night and fall asleep practicing rhythms. When I wake up, it's still going and I'm immediately reminded to start practicing again. Then once I'm dressed I can switch over the headphones, drop the Korg in my pocket, and go about my day.
My two gripes so far with the Korg are 1) since the buttons are on the face of it I have to be more careful with it in my pocket to avoid pushing any of them accidentally, while the Tascam was pretty much immune to this. The volume scroll wheel on the side also sometimes gets moved when pocketing the Korg, and it seems like "0 volume" isn't at the bottom of the pot range either. Maybe I'm just deaf. 2) I prefer the click of the Tascam to the beep of the Korg. Through the speaker it's more of a metallic "ping" like a tiny hammer hitting an anvil, through the headphones a beep. It gets the job done, but the Tascam's click is closer to the noise I can make by clicking my tongue, so it's easier to tell if they're exactly aligned or not. Also I find the click more pleasant than the ping.
That said, the Korg has a nice quality-of-life feature built into it with the swinging metronome arm on the front. Most of the time I don't find these very useful, even the real arms on mechanical metronomes, because there is often not a well-defined point in the swing where the click occurs. It occurs in the same spot, that spot just isn't very well marked if at all so it's harder to use as a reference. With the Korg though, the beep appears to occur right when the arm hits the side of the screen. The arm also seems to freeze ever so slightly when it hits too, which makes the event visually stand out more.
I also appreciate that the Korg can be set to 0 beats per bar, which means that it's just a continuous stream of unaccented beeps, whereas 1 beat per bar is a continuous stream of accented beats. I prefer the unaccented beep, it's not as shrill and is closer to the click of a tongue.
Hopefully this thing lasts a good long while, it's making a big difference in how much practice I can get in during the day. If I forget at some point, I eventually hear the beeping and get back at it. On the flip side strangers probably think I'm a bomb threat, what with the constant quiet beeping.
I suppose metronomes aren't the usual things people show off here, but it's the little things in life. Plus I wanted to share that this is the first metronome I've found where the swing arm serves as a good visual reference for the click, in case that matters to anyone.
